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...Khodorkovsky could be forgiven for feeling like he'd been thrust back into the Soviet gulag: Sentenced to eight years in a Siberian labor camp at Krasnokamensk, Khodorkovsky has been denied access to any intellectual activity. Access to books has been denied, and television is available only in the facility's recreation room, where other prisoners prefer watching soap operas. Khodorkovsky spends every day from 6 a.m. till 10 p.m. doing senseless manual labor and taking courses on glove-stitching. He is under constant monitoring by a team sent from Moscow of officials from the prisons department...
...other faiths, Islam lends itself to corruption by fundamentalist extremists who twist its teachings to serve their own perverted ends. Robert Readman Bournemouth, England A Government Out of Touch Re "A strange kind of revolution" [April 3], author Jacques Marseille's essay on the French protests over the youth labor law: Having lived half my life in Britain and half in France, I've been able to note some enduring differences in the Gallic modus operandi. Among the many problems that France has, one is an élitist government. Too few of the ministers during the past 30 years have...
...furnishings the Tutto cocktail bar, tel: (41-43) 818 2391, is as good a simulacrum of the 1960s as you'll find. The chandeliers and red velvet at BASILICA, tel: (41-43) 366 9383, take revelers back to an even older era. More contemporary interiors are found at the Labor Bar, tel: (41-44) 272 4402, backdrop to local TV celebrity Kurt Aeschbacher's chat show, or at Hard One, tel: (41-44) 444 1000, a slick rooftop lounge. Among the area's many good dance clubs are Rohstofflager, tel: (41-44) 439 9090, and Club...
...same hardships that American workers face. This doesn’t mean that the U.S. should try to get rid of immigrants. This would be impossible, inhumane, and unnecessary. Immigrants pose no threat to American workers unless their vulnerability is exploited to drive down the price of their labor. The way to protect native workers is to protect immigrant workers, and this must be done through strong policies for all workers. Both immigrants and natives need strong, democratic unions to represent their interests. Both need strong workplace protections that are actually enforced. And both need a political system that serves...
Addressing a meeting of members from over 20 student groups, leaders of Harvard’s Fuerza Latina and Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) called for a campus-wide walkout on May 1 to protest federal legislation they say is anti-immigration. [See correction...